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One of my favourite parts of my job is to see the variety of ways in which researchers, agronomists and farmers approach the problems they face. Innovation is happening at every level of Canadian agriculture!
- Alex Barnard, Eastern editor
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In 2024, a variety of different cutworm species were found causing crop injury in Ontario. It can be difficult to properly identify cutworms found in the field.
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This project will increase and optimize operational space and increase container storage capacity by 20 per cent at the terminal operated by DG CanEst Transit Inc.
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Thirteen winners and 16 honourable mentions in agriculture excellence across 11 diverse categories are being honoured this year. The recipient of the centrepiece Minister’s Award is Farm & Food Care Ontario.
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You may be familiar with nitrification inhibitor products that aim to keep more nitrogen in the soil for the crop’s use and reduce N losses to the water and air. Some plants naturally release compounds from their roots that can perform the same role – a process known as biological nitrification inhibition. Researchers are working to breed elite Canadian wheat varieties with enhanced BNI capacity.
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Stripe rust has caused yield loss for Prairie wheat growers since the early 2000s. Its spores blow in from the Pacific Northwest, typically landing in southern Alberta, or to Saskatchewan and Manitoba from the Mississippi Valley. Despite years of research, AAFC's André Laroche is still fascinated by the interactions between these pathogens and plants.
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While no cover crop is a quick fix or solution to all a field's problems, when treated like specialist tools and used with defined goals in mind, they can do many things, including busting up compacted soils, boosting soil organic matter, keeping weeds down – and suppressing diseases like Fusarium root and crown rot in soybean and barley, according to a recently published study based on research at AAFC-Charlottetown.
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